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BY CLMESCALE erican .'. Fruit Reserving I-:'-.''.".-' ? : Powder AND liquid! . %. J2 hare sold this valuable Prepara tin forjeveral years, and take great pleas in.bfferitoEit againJ this season. The, ifectop"-having oeen short for several 5, ws advise curfriends to take advan of the abundant crop in prospect this ai, and provide for what may. be a KtcwVp next. JW5ffif?^eJ)ollar,8 worth of the Prepa SfiBon^ttd a greatdeal lesa trouble than the oldrfiahionod way of canning, yon cai. aave - enough : to do; a large family - the ^hoie Winter, and you can open and use ^ufcfbfcttte jarjtom time to time without *ory?: "f ooncse it suits.some people to run Preparation down,' because it inter ^Wilihi their business,' but ast 3V D. oan, of this city, and a thousand others roughont the County who have, tried it rlth ancc?SSf arid you\wffl very soon see era is ho humbug about it. HILL BROTHERS. LAVA I?. PAINTS, ^P?iac Colors, Makes a very Hard Finisli, S^3|^d Dries Hard overnight. XT IS TOST THE THING! Also, all other kinds of PAINTS AND OILS, . ? AT ? SIMPSON, SEID & OO'S. 13!RXj? STOEE.; JORDAN HOUSE. URS. ?. C JORDAN, Proprietress. Rates Reasonable. ttUVATE and Transient Board aollcit Sv 'ed. The table ia supplied with the __$^>maxket affords, and every :atten .on given to guests. ApriI25,188Q 42. ? OR; SALE OR REJIT! ???v.?-^ , ??- -- --? PREMISES at Honea Path, 8. C, for _. morly belonging to Mrs. W. G. SnuUu:/ ;Two and a half acres of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to. -v.lv GREIG & MATCHE v7S, |HL?^^V---.>: . Charleston, S. C. ' &FrU'i8,'X88e .' ... 41, - 6m E. PRHFCE, IEY HL - business; promptly attended to. .Special attention given to col ^?y^l8S9 ' 44 3m OTICK OP FINAL SETTLMENT. Notice is hereby "given that the un ffij^gneA will apply to the Judge of Pro iS^S^Anderson O/H., S.-C, on the 15th |S^rnly,< 1889, for a Final Settlement -of the^Ertate of Hiram B. Majors, deceased, d a' di8charge\ft0m their office as Ad ?WrixB of said Estate. MRS. SALLIE MAJORS. i~fMBS;'MOLLIE C. SK ELTON, Bggg&p*i'-- Administratrixa. JbhelS,1889 49 b fibtion Gin Scales, S68 BEAM BOX BRASS TARE BEAM. Warranted tor 5 Yean -JONES HE PAYS THE FREIGHT. 0525 ?f LDSOHAMTON, Bingaamton, N. Y. FERNOLffil-B?LS?M : A PURE EXTRACT FROM THE ^ YELLOW PINE TREE I - NATURE'S REMEDY. Tke'Byrtem Absorts itRemdfly Tarongh thePows^ . . "IT <JU.WAJS ;' Neuralgia, ?'.)-;. ^ 7 Toothache, fediseases of tho Muscles, Nerves, Throat, ?'? ? Chest, Lungs, . _and Asthma^ ii^theBEST Genebal Remedy ever offered jofiie public You cannot afford to be with?j ^SXfflGS OR BITES OP IESECTSj 5V> ' -LARGE BOTTLES, . ?SIleY. 50 CEHTS. ;OLD BY.ALL DEALERS IN~MEDICIN?S< 'KJFOB-TAKE NO OTHERS & 23T Testimonials and full directions with bottle. : : ' . "< S & LANGSTON. TflACmflrtf'GOLUMN, ~?5t All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, 8. C. The Yorbriile correspondent of the News and Courier says: "There are now over one hundred and thirty scholars at the Graded School, and it is growing in popularity every day. Prof. Thackston, the Superintendent, is a man who thor? oughly understands his business) and lie has an able and well drilled corps of as? sistants." .We greatly enrich ourselves and our children too, when we employ and pay liberally for cultured men and women as teachers. We cannot get something lor nothing in our schools, and school offi? cers should not try to do this. The people will favor more liberality on the part of our school officers in the employ* ment of teachers and in the conduct of our schools.? : We learn that the Ivy Hollow school closed 1 ast week after a very prosperous session of several months. But we also learn, with much regret, that the teacher, Miss Sallie Goss, will not probably return, having received a very advanta? geous offer in Macoo, Ga. We can but rejoice at her good fortune while regret? ting to lose her from our ranks, and wherever she goes our good wishes will follow her. The closing exercises of the Liberty Springs school were held on the 14th inst., and closed with a pic nie and exhi? bition on the 15th. * This has been a good year for Liberty Spring, and Mr. Harris, the teacher, has done some faith? ful, conscientious work there, which we hope will bear fruit in the future.- We had expected to be there and exchange greetings with the good people of that community and, perhaps, have a word to say, but absence from home prevented us. How many of our teachers are going I to be present at the-Institute ? We would like to Bee them all here .on the first day at the opening. We have aeen your faces this past Winter and Spring at your work in the school room, and we will be equally as glad to see yon here taking in fresh inspiration for the con? ing work. And we think we can safely' promise a rich fard of instruction for all who come. In addition to that we want to see the Trustees and patrons here. Come up and see who are the live teach? ers, and bring your children with you. ' Two grand opportunities are-again presented to the teachers of Anderson Oounty to get a training for professional work that are seldom equalled. The first one is the Scholarship Jin the Win? throp School, a competitive examination for which will be held ?.t this office-on the 3rd of July. The second is the Scholarship in the Nashvilb Normal School, the examination for which will be held in Columbia, on July 16th, in the office of the State Superintendent. Anderson has on previous occasions carried off the honors in these examinations, and we hope to see some of her teachers do so this time. A great deal has been written lately on the Bubject of school savings banks, and we mention it here for the purpose of calling attention to the matter, and of provoking discussion. They have been tried in Europe with great Buccess. There are 4,700 schools in Belgium that have saved $678,1(57 and Liverpool has .180 schools that have $122,599 put away in savings banks. France has 23,375 schools that have on deposit $2,467,630. She is the most careful and economical nation on the globe. Thus encouraging the children to save the pennies would form habits of thrift and economy, and ^?iU~greatly help them when tbey go . out intb tbe^battle of life. It will give them a nest egg^cKatart with when the tug comes. ?^ Home again 1 After an absence of - nearly six weeks, - we are again on deck and ready for duty. Our trip to the mountains of Western North Carolin has been greatly enjoyed by us, and we hope we have profited much thereby. We have looked upon some of the grand? est scenery on earth, and have wandered along the banks.of the. most beautiful streams of water. We have seen much of North Carolina schools and North Carolina teachers, and we have come back with; if possible, a higher appreci? ation of Anderson's schools and her teachers. They are a noble band of workers, and we found almost everywhere we went among intelligent people that their reputation had gone abroad, and we could but feel proud to nay that we were from Anderson our-< Iv-. a. At the last examination we noticed that nearly all the teachers failed to answer satisfactorily the question as to the importance of the Samoan Islands to the United States. This could not be learned from books, and only those who read the papers and are well posted on the current eveuts of the day could answer it. This suggests the thought ?that all teachers should take and read some one of the leading papers of the day, and not only bhould tbey read the current events of the day, but they should be discussed in the school room, and the pupils be encouraged to take part them? selves, and to take an interest in what is going oq in the busy world around them. A knowledge of these things helps to make intelligent boys and girls, and they will make intelligent men an women. Four years ago Wm.' H. Campbell, a good old fashioned Democrat of Sax ton's River, Vt., was appointed postmaster. ?His wife, who has always been a Re publican, has constantly assisted her liusbmd during these four years, and so Iwe'il h'ttH <he office been conducted that when he it-signed. Democrats and Re publicansuoiied in Hiking the Govern' m<!;! Lo make In r her husband'-.'??t?i?*?or. She Ira-jUHt received her commission from the puatmaHt^r general and her husband is now her assistant. ?Colorado is said to have 1,099 women BtQcfc growers, i BILL ARP. Arp Purchases a Fig for a Pot. Atlanta Constitution. When will this thing ? top ? I am not calm and serene. It is not Friday, but it looks like everything has got wrong Bide up. I bought the children some fancy chickens from Will Henderson?some beautiful black LaogshaDs whose fore fathers and mothers were all the way from Asia. They laid fourteen eggs large, beautiful eggs?and the hens were happy, and the rooster, and the children, too. But, ala9 for human b.'pea and Langshan eggs 1 My wife told me not long ago that we ought to have a pig, a nice, clean little pig, to eat up the waste ' and scraps and all the et cetera and so forth, and ? she mentioned that neighbor Freeman bad one that cost only a dollar a feW months ago, and it had grown and fattened and flourished until it weighed 200 pounds, and he sold it for twelve dollars and gave his wife the money, and he had bought another pig to do the same thing over, and it was a matter of econo? my,-and so I bought a sweet little pig, and it was kept in the cow lot, and Carl made a trough and it Bwallowed in the botbsrmilk and was behaving splendid until last night, somebody left the gate open and the sweet little spotted thing came out and meandered around and found the hens' nests and gobbled up the whole concern and wanted more. It made the children right sick, and they wanted to kill the pig, and about that time I came out to my favorite seat in the front piazza, to ruminate upon the rise and fall of sublunary thing?, when suddenly I missed the beautiful vines that had been meandering up the cane lattice that I had built. Oh 1 my country. One day while Mrs. Arp was gone I built that lattice to surprise her and revive the smiling sunlight in her eyes. It is a beautiful lattice,- made of long, smooth canes that reach from the ground to the upper piazza, and they are interlaced crossway8 like basket work with other canes, and the madeira vines and morning glories had already climbed every cane nearly.to the top and were spreading their leaves and tendrils and closing out the sunlight; and I had left little openings along for.windows bo that we could peep through and see who was passing along the street, or who was coming up the ave? nue to Bee ub, and most every liuy I bet with the children which vine would grow the fastest by next morning, and now here it ib.' Oh, my country, the calf got out when the pig did, and while the pig was feeding on Langshan eggs at two dollars a dozen, the infernal calf was stuffing his maw with madeira vines and morning glories, and then went off and kid down? right in our sight, and was chewing her cud, a cud made of the vines that were our hope and our delight. When will this thing stop? I ripped and ? raved, and I walked the piazza backwards and forwards and put on all the agony I could raise. I confounded the pig and the calf and the gate and the unknown individual who left it open. I knew that Mrs. Arp would find out from the children what was the matter, and s<? I wanted to out Her?d Herod and steal her thunder, for she is a prudent woman and never gets on a tare when she sees me on. a tare. And that's right. When Mrs. Arp is on a tare I am as meek as a lamb. It la like play? ing seasaw, when one is up the other is down, though sometimes I think I don't get my share of high riding. Be1 I rode high this morning and the next ?hing I heard was Mrs'. Arp at the piano and she was playing"Araby's daughter, ?nd her low Bweet notes came over me like the sweet south wind breathing upon a bank of violets, By the lime the breakfast bell rang I had mellowed down smartly and Mrs. Arp said she though that the vines would sprout again from the roots and we wouldn't lose more than two weeks but that I had better send the calf to the country. It does look like there is always some? thing to prey upon aometbing. The bad is mixed up with the good and we have to fight the battle of life through tribulation and vexation and aggravation and all the .operations. "After.breakfaf 11 had to go to town and help to ^wOTknWLibe_cltixfn8 to raise money enough to buy the land~lorTn5' railroad shops. The committees had been working on them for three days and had a whooper up meeting every night, and still were short about a thousand dollars, and the committee got sick and went to bed, and had me put on a new commtttee as airelay?a sort of last resort and it was the hardest work I ever done or will try to do again. I had rather stand up hill and grub downwards, or dig post holea, or weed onions, or skin a cat backwards all day long. It takea eo much explanation aud ex? aggeration?so much persuasion and eva? sion, and the whole thing is bo monoto? ne us, Hud every man'haa to be talked to as gently as a sucking dove?but after a while they surrender and put down for about half they ought to, and you heave a sigh and go on to the nest man. "They are asking too much for that land and my money Bhan't go into no such an extortion. When will Col. Ball build the shops ? What kind of shops is he going to build ? What does be want with so much land ? No, air, I'm not going to be fooled again. I aiu't forgot that fur? nace yet that swindled us out of our money. What's become of them furnace fellows ? I put twenty five dollars in a car factory once and Bill Noble came up here and toted it off to Anniston right before our eyes. Don't you reckon this is all a trick of the land company. If I wasn't afraid them shop fellows would vote whisky back in to this town I would subscribe. The shops ain't goir.g to help any business at all, for more people will bring more stores and the new Bet will cut under and get what trade I have got. Col. Ball is going to put the shops here anyhow, and I know it. His railroad folks are them rich bond holders in New York, and I nay let them buy their own land." One by one they would take the list and look over every name on it aud talk about this man and that mnn, and it would take from ten minutes !o half an Knur to get through with a man, but we generally got something before we left. One man from whom we didn't expect a cent, spoke up promptly and e?id, yes, I ANDERSON, S. C, will give you fifty dollars, and he treated us to cigars in the bargain. Another man from whom we-expected a hundred gave us twenty-five, and so we kept up the equilibrium and raised the money. What curious creatures we arel I have heretofore been round with a church subscription to raise a thousand dollars for a preacher, and it takes the same hard, patient work to Bucceed at that, and after you have succeeded it takes the same kind of work every month to collect the monthly dues. Our deacon is a plas? terer and works hard at hti Irade, but he has to lost! about three days in a month begging the members of the church to pay their dues. But all this work and patience and forbearance must be endur? ed for the good results that are to come. The good is more than the bad, and I feel easy and grateful now except for the oalf and the pig. When I think of them I go out in the garden and pick a bowl of Blrawberries and put some sugar and cream all over them and take them to Mrs. Arp and that satisfies me. It is a fact that we have been eating strawber? ries from our garden every day since the 13th day of April, and we had them for dinner to-day. Who can beat that? And I planted every plant myself last spring was a year ago. Last fall I cover? ed the ground too inches deep with cotton seed and I advise everybody else to do the same. I have only fonr rows a hun? dred and twenty feet long, and we gath? ered berries by the water bucket full. I never saw as many in my life on the same space. They are the Oharles Downing and theSharpless varieties and have given us more comfort and nsed up more sugar than a little. Confound the calf and the pig. BiLh Arp. Consumption Curable and Kot Inherited, The recently published statement of Dra. Frudden, Biggs and Loomis to the New York Board of Health in regard to the contagiousness of pulmonary tuber? culosis (consumption) and the means of protection therefrom contains useful in? formation that merits the attention of every man, woman and child in the land. Briefly put, the substance of the state? ment is that consumption is not inher? ited, is distinctly preveutible and is often cured. Tuberculosis is very com? mon. Domestic animals, and especially cattle, are frequently pflected by it, About one-fourth of the deaths of grown persons are caused by it and nearly one half of the entire population acquire it at one time or another during life. It is caused by a living germ, the tubercle bacillus, which finds its way into the body and multiplies there, if the condi? tions favor, producing tubercles. These tubercles soften and. give out a discharge containing the living germs, which is thrown off from the body. When the tubercles are in the lungs, constituting "consumption," the expectoration con? sists largely of these iatal germs. The latter do not grow outside the body, but they retain their vitality and virulence for a long time, even when thoroughly dried. It is when dried and floating in the air as an impalpable dust that they are most dangerous. Consumption is commonly produced by breathing air in which the living germs are suspended as dust. The origin of the poison, as already stated, is chiefly in the expecto? ration of persons suffering from consump? tion. They cough up a sputum which contains germs in enormous quantities. This is deposited in places where it after? wards dries, as on floors, carpets, cloth? ing, handkerchiefs, &c. When dry it readily breaks up into minute bits which float in the air as dust. The entire sur? roundings of consumptive patients are made poisonous with this dust. Repeated experiments show that the dust gathered from almost any part of a hospital ward, asylum, prison or private house where a consumptive resides will produce tuberculosis in animals inoculated with it, while the dust from places where the disease does not exist has no such effect. It is important to note that the breath of a person having consumption does not communicate the disease, nor does the spit of the consumptive patient com? municate it so long as it is retained in its receptacle in a moist state. It is only , Trtr^-it-dr.ieA-andJs scattered by cur? rents of air that it is dangerouir^TSe^ prevalent belief that consumption is hereditary is due to the fact that the children of consumptives are more than others exposed to the tubercle bacilli, which find the way to their lungs from handkerchiefs, carpets, floors and the clothing of the afflicted parent. It is conceded to be likely that the child may inherit a weak condi? tion of the lungs, which renders it more liable than another to succumb, but it is now known that the disease it? self can be caused only by the entrance of the germ into the body. It may enter otherwise than by way of the lungs. It may be transmitted by meat or milk from animals Buffering from tuberculosis. The milk of cows, whose lungs are affected, often contains the living tuber? cle bacillus, and the need of caution in the purchase of milk is emphasized by the fact that 20 or 30 per cent, of stall fed cows have the disease. Boiling the milk and thoroughly cooking the meat destroys the germs, and this is a precau? tion that should never be omitted when there is any reason to suspect one's milk or beef supplies. Consumption is, how? ever, as a rule, communicated from man to man throught the medium of the per? nicious dust whose origin we have de? scribed. To prevent the formation of this dust by. preventing the drying of the expectorations of consumptive persons is, therefore, the only effective means of preventing the extension of consumption to those about the patient and of curing the patient himself. The patient may diminish his chances of recovery by self inoculation if he neglects the proper precautions. What, then, is to be done ? Only this, to burn the spittle of the con? sumptive person before it has had time to dry. Handkerchiefs should be boiled very soon after being used by a consump tive person; in his bands they are extremely dangerous articles. Expecto? ration on the floor or porch should not of course be thought of for a moment. In a word, the cure and prevention of con sumption lie in zealous and uninterrupted personal cleanliueiis? Baltimore Sun, THURSDAY MORN THREE MILES A MINUTE. Wonderful Things Promised hy the Weems Ele Btro-Antomatle Hallway. From the Baltimore Sun. The Weems railway Bystem, incorpo? rated under the name of the Electro Automatic Transit Company of Balti? more, after about a year of carefully conducted and conclusive experiments, has patented its multiplicity of electrical and mechanical appliances in the United States and all over the world as a pre -liminary to putting the system regularly to work wherever required. By this electro-automatic arrangement the morn? ing papers may be delivered for the breakfast liable and the evening papers before supper time at distant points. It j will deliver letters almost with the j promptitude of the telegraph sending a message. The mails between New York and Omaha will be carried in a night. It will handle perishable light freight from long distances, will deliver with celerity the mails and parcels in cities aud suburban towns, and will multiply many times the business of the postoffice and expreBB companies. Its advantages are not alone in its speed, but in the economy and frequency with which trains can be dispatched. In addition to all these things It will save interest on remittances at long distances, will bring the people closer together and will create new enterprises. Doubtless', as in the case of the telegraph, its important uses cannot be anticipated in advance of its going into active operation. Its devel? opment will create new fields of useful? ness not now thought of, Such, in brief, are what the persona interested in thia invention claim for it. The motor car ie 18 feet long and 2J feet square at each end. It is pointed in front, the wedge or point being below the longitudinal centre, adjusting it to the air pressure, thus keeping the car down to the track. To reduce atmospheric friction to a minimum, all wheels and electrical appliances are placed within the walls of the cars. The road is to be built on the surface of the ground, with track of 24 inches guage, and will cost about $5,000 per mile. In thickly set? tled districts the road can be elevated, the varied length of the uprights being a cheap mode of covering irregularties in the surface of the ground over which tec road passes. The mail and express cars are telescoped in forming a train, the former into the end of the motar car, and the latter into that of the one proceding it, forming a flexible train of cars, offering an unbroken surface to the air. The rear end of the rear car is pointed in a similar manner to the front of the motor car, thus preventing any suction as the train rushes on its way. The motor may pull one car or a train of cars. All trains will be controlled from a generating station, where will be placed an electrical generating plant.. Electri? cal brakes are to be used, and trains are started," stopped, speed lessened and backed at will from the station. Special appliances will inform the operator in charge of the generating station of the exact location of the train from the time it leaves or passes any given point until it reaches its destination. It has not yet been determined how far apart the gen? erating stations shall be placed. Possi? bly 100 miles may not be out of range, as the current can be run for 50 miles each way from the station as a centre without much loss of electricity. The electrical force may be generated by either steam or water power. The main object, that of carrying heavy cur? rents over long diBtancea, is attained by special methods. By these, in a given time, a large number of traina may be dispatched with extraordinary rapidity and at comparatively little expense. The frequency of the trains consumes only a small amount of power, aud the fact that no attendants on the train are necessary, constitutes no email item in economy. The patents of the company number 143 in the United State? and the princi? pal countries of the world, covering the vital details of this novel system. The principles patented involve special form of rail, making it impossible for trains to jump the track at any rate of apeed; form of electrical^afety rail, carrying same on the same rail, (this rail caifbe crossed by pedestrians or vehicles with perfect safety;) form of conductors and rails combined, with insulation of the same for carrying currents over long distances; meana of Btarting, stopping, backing and controlling trains from the generating stations; method of regulat? ing the electrical current automatically on trairi8 while in motion, increasing the power in ascending and decreasing the same In descending grades; means whereby trains automatically register themselves at every station as they pass every mile of track; form of journals and boxes for fast speed to avoid heating; reducing the air pressure at high speed to a minimum by pointed cars splitting the air in front and preventing suction in the rear whilst in transit; reducing the cro3B-aeclion of cars to a minimum and inclosing the wheels and electrical equipment within the walla of the aame to offer as little resistance to the air as possible; telescoping the cars of a train to present to the air an unbroken sur? face; special swith for rails; keeping the centre of gravity of the* whole train below the axles. Patents have also been secured for a passenger system which applies to the conversion of existing steam railroads into electric railroads, which cover the only aafe mode of rapid transit for passengers. A series of experiments have been made at Laurel, Md., to Bhow what the Weems railway system will do. This experi? mental line ia a circuit of exactly two miles. Over thiB route there are 29 changes of grade, some of them very heavy, even to the extent of 108 feet to the mile. The generating plant there contains all the electrical appliances nec? essary to the attainment of high speed by a railroad train. There is also special machinery far experimentation, and the perfecting of all mechanical and electrical inventions tending to ad vance and improve the system AH tests of speed have been made upon heavy grades and curvoB combined, too great eyer to be required in the construction of ING, JUNE 27, 1888 a commercial line; therefore the experi? ments demonstrate the high rate of speed which will be obtained npon lines built for business purposes. At this experi? ment station two miles per minute are made around a heavy curve, or the equivalent of 180 miles an hour, or three miles a minute on a levei track. Prior to the inauguration of this system 20 miles per hour was the fastent time ever made by any kind of electrical railroad station. A visitor to this experiment station sees many things to surprise him. There are no extensive works, and the motor when it comes out from under its Bhed, iu obedience to the will of the engineer in the distant plant building where the electric dynamo 'generate.} the current, moves deliberately, slowly and with absence of all sound. This cigar-shaped car, painted a bright red and moving sharp end foremost, at first sight does not seem a wonderful thing as it goes quietly along the track, but later when -the engineer at the dynamo puts on more power, or, as a steam car man would say, more steam, and the creeping thing on the ground hastens it3 movement until it fairly flies, and becomes a moving speck of red, spectators feel the progress being made in applied science and talk of the wonders of electricity and the great things it will accomplish in the active affairs of life in the near future. All who have witnessed the successful trials at Laurel are impressed with the great stride made in the matter of rapid transit by electricity. Arrangements are now being made for the building of an extended road between distant cities, and Baltimore will be one of the stopping points on the line. Mr. David 6. Weems, of Baltimore is the inventor of the system, Mr. 0. J. Smith, the vice-president, is president of the American Press Association of New York. The officers of the company have made frequent visits to witness the various trials, and with each successful increase of speed have enlarged their expectations of future results. Old Times in Tennessee, On the record of the court of Sumner county, Tennessee, for the year 1795, there i3 this entry; "Thecourt thanks Andrew Jackson for his brave conduct." There is no information concerning what Mr. Jackson did to deserve thanks in tbis form, at least at the court in in question. "Old Joe Guild," a promi? nent lawyer and State character, who died a few years ago, removed from that county to Nashville. He used to relate that when he grew up and became a Jackson man there were still magistrates living of the 1795 period. Of them he inquired concerning this entry. It seems that the county court had the t rial of misdemeanors. A gang of bullies defied the court, juries and sheriff, and persisted in terrifying the surrounding country. They were indicted by the grand jury, but came into court and declared that they would not be tried, that it was against the laws of nature which govern? ed the conduct of gentlemen and protect? ed them from such undignified prosecu? tion. By the next term of court Jackson had been chosen district attorney. On his arrival he hitched bis horse, carried his saddlebags into court and placed them beside him while he perused the docket. The first thing he did, to the amazement of every one, wbb to call the cases of the bullies. The entire gang came into court and declined to be tried, repeating their accustomed argument. Mr. Jackson re? monstrated and assured Ibem that there was no way to avoid a trial; that the law must be obeyed, no matter whom it hurt, that it was no respector of persons. The bullies became boisterous and threa? tening. Instantly Jackson pulled bis pistols from his saddlebags and a free fight began in the court room. The leadership of the young lawyer inspired the people present who were in favor of the enforcement of the law, and they joined with Jackson, whipped the entire crowd of bullies, took them into court, where they were tried, convicted and sentenced to the full penalty prescribed by statute. That was the last of the bullies and the occasion of the unex? plained entry on the records of the court ofSumner county for 1795. Saiu?el E; M?TgGnpwnb' ouilc the State' capitol of Tennessee, died Borne ten years ago, bad in his possession a merchant's book of accounts. In these were the purchases of Andrew Jackson for five years after 1790. An examination of the books shows that the only purchases made by Old Hickory of this .merchant were powder, lead and whisky. Mr. Morgan used to relate that be once witnessed a cock fight shortly after the battle of New Orleans. Jackoon was present, sitting on bis horse, while some fellow down in the pit awkwardly tried to heel the chicken. Jackson became first uneasy, then mad. He leaped from his horse into the pit, brushed the fellow abide and heeled the chicken after the most approved fashion. Then he returned to the saddle and witnessed the fight. Jackson was originally a backwoods specimen of the rareBt type, but he at once evolved into perhaps the grandest man that ever lived, having no equal in the ballroom, no peer in politeness, courtesy and admiration for women. The same is largely true of the Tennessean.of to-day. Take him from the farm, array him in fashionable clothes, put him in the ballroom or in society and his thor? oughbred blood instantly manifests itself, exhibiting in him only the refined man of the world. Jackson's letters which remain are in many respects more interesting than Washington's. They exhibit a man absolutely devoted to his family, from whom not tfc 3 smallest thing concerning them escaped and whose every interest was his. No man ever wrote in the same epirit and his social letters are modeln from which Chesterfield might have learned much in politene*8. Nothing escaped him. To show how the men of his time worshiped him the incident related by Wiloughby William?, "Old Man Wiloughby," of years ago, will suffice. Wlien Lifay. etto visited Jackson in 1S25 he rode in a carriage with General Hall while Jack? son was on horseback. Great q man as Lafayette was, the people all looked at Jackson and confined their expressiona of admiration to him. The duel between Jackson and Sevier seema to have escaped hiatory aud biogra? phy, Sevier waa Jackson's equal as a soldier, and during his Indian fights of over a quarter century ho never lost a battle, because he always charged into the nativeB when in a body, and the Indian could fight a tree in front of him. In 1796 Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee, and for twelve years. DuriDg the first term Jackson was on the supreme bench of the State. The two men had a difficulty about a military election, both being candidates. On the day when Jackson arrived at Khoxville to hold court Sevier came also, mounted a block in the square and denounced Jackson in nnmeaaured terras, calling him all the namea in the vocabulary. There could be but one result, and that evening Jackson challenged him. Sevier accept ed, and then came a question as to where the fight should take place. Jackson wanted to fight on the Cherokee reservation and Sevier in Virginia. As a reault letters passed between - them, in which the word coward had the most frequent UBe. Finally, Jackson started for Virginia and notified Sevier. He reached Virginia first and remained several days awaiting the arrival of his opponents. Sevier not appearing he started for home, meeting his rival on the way. They met in the road, ex? changed several shots, neither one being hurt, when friends interfered. They never forsake each other, and there is still a tradition that this was the moat digraceful episode in the history of the State.?Nashville American. STONEWALL'S WAY, General Jackson's Plar. of lighting the War. Baltimore Sun. Charlotte, N. C, June 2.?To day's Charlotte Chronicle pulishes a historical, sensation of Stonewall Jackson's plan of conducting the Confederate war, which, it is claimed, was approved by Gen. R. E. Lee, but opposed by President .Davis. The information comes from General Eu fus Barringer, a brother-in-law of Stone? wall Jackson, and who resides here. He obtained the information in a war con? ference with Jackson. General Barring ger, after reading the article in to-day's Chronicle, told the Sun's correspondent that it was absolutely truthful and exact in detail of facts. The following is the article: "The article by Lord Wolseley has at? tracted great attention in the South to the war policy. For the first time the Chronicle ia able to lay before the world at some length, in sufficient detail and with absolute authority, Stonewall Jack? son's broadest and fullest plans as to how ! the Confederacy should have conducted the civil war. I "Mrs. Mary A. Jackson, widow of the immortal Stonewall, who resides in Charlotte, ia engsged in writing a life of her famous husband. She has been at work on the book now nearly a year, and it is thought that it will be fully six months before the laat pages are written. She leaves Charlotte to-morrow for her brother's home in the country, that she may have perfect quiet and seclusion, bo that ehe may more closely devote her time and attention to the writing of the memoira. It was not Mrs. Jackson's inteution to treat at all of General Jack? son aa a soldier. She merely intended to write of him personally and on his relations as son, husband and father. "It happened, however, that there were matters brought out, indefinitely or un? satisfactorily alluded to in Dabney's 'Life of Jackson,' that she desired to amplify for the purpose of throwing full light upon them. Among these more or less obscure points is Jackson's idea of how the war should have been conduc? ted. It ia treated of in the beginning of chapter XV on the 'Bz.ttle of Cedar Bun,' but in an incomplete, inaccurate and erroneous way. The chapter eayB that General Jackson had an interview with Hon. A, B. Boteler in the former's tent, where the General communicated his views of the future conduct of the war, and begged that on Mr. Boteler's next visit to Bichmond he would impress.. them on thei goveran?Bt;" Jack'a?h* told Mr. Boteler that the Confederates should 'carry the horrors of invasion from their own borders to those of the guilty assail? ants.' "Dabney closes the paragraph with thisseutence: 'What weight was attach? ed to it is unknown, but the campaign soon after took the direction which he (Jackson) had indicated.' "Geu. Rufus Barringer, a resident of this city, who was a brother-in-law of Genpim Jackson, has been able to furn? ish Mis. Jackson very valuable informa? tion on. this very point, obtained in a council held with Stonewall Jackson in the latter's own tent and at his own re? quest. Instead of the subsequent cam? paign taking the direction which he (Jackson) had indicated, it was just the opposite to bis plan, and made Sharps burg and Gettysburg disastrous possibili? ties and actualities. "General Barringer now possesses the letter, in Jeb. Stuart's handwriting, directed to the former's Colonel, telling him to-send (then) Captain Barringer to the headquarters'of General Jackson, as the letter desired to confer with the Cap? tain on mattersofimportance. Although Captain Barringer and General Jackson, having married aistera, were brothers-in law, they had not met since the opening of hostilities, and as the Captain had always reaided in North Carolina while General Jackson had been a resident of Virginia, they had seen very little of each other, and were by no means on in? timate terms. The cause of the compli? mentary summon^ of Captain Barringer wa9 the gallant stand his company had made in a disastrous retreat at Willis' Church. Jackson . had apparently for? gotten his brother in-law, for he asked Stuart: 'Is B.rringer a thorough dis? ciplinarian and tactician ?' Stuart replied that Barringer was a thorough soldier, and appreciated to a nicety drill and dis? cipline. Jackson said,'All the better; I liken civilian with practical sense and an idea of discipline. The old army men are apt to be martinets, unauited to com VOLUM] mand and get the best service out of untrained volunteers.' Strange language that for a graduate of West Point, but who shall be able to refute the great Jackson's opinion ? "When. Captain Barringer appeared at General Jackson's tent the command? er's greeting was entirely devoid of sen? timent. The General was busy, as usual. He was at the door of his tent, giving command. As the Captain approached, the General said, with an inquiring yet welcoming intonation : 'Captain Barring ger, I have sent for you on business; you will stay in my tent all night; we'll have a good time unless the Yankees disturb us. If Pope doesn't, I know McCleltan will not.' That night the brother-in-h.w general and the brother-in-law captain, who later himself become a general, dis? cussed at length the war policy of the Confederacy. Already Jackson had seen that the South could not stand hav? ing the enemy's armies within her terri? tory. The mere invasion was sapping the roots of Confederate supplies. He and Captain Barringer conferred at length on the cavalry, its merits, its advantages, and where and how it could be best used. General Jackson announced his emphatic opinion in that interview that the continuance of the defensive policy meant ultimate disaster and ruin. Jack? son's plan was, he said, to organize two four or more interior camp 3 at the more important points in the South, and use the best troops as 'light, movable col? umns' of not over forty or fifty thousand men each. These must be made up of the very best*men, under the command of the pick of officers. They should be lightly equipped and prepared for long, quick marches. These he would burl against the enemy as they invaded the Southern territory, or use them to make rapid invasions of the North. He would select the best and least protected cities, fall upon them without notice, levy con? tributions on them of ?50,000 to $100,000 or more, as circumstances suggested, and destroy the towns that refused the levy. Whenever be should find the enemy pressing him in the North be would retreat and fight his way across the line. In the meantime, however, one of these 'light, movable columns' would be on the way to some other unprotected city, perhaps 500 miles away, which would be levied on or destroyed. "General JackBon went 'so far as to specify the States into which he would send the lightly equipped columns. He named Pennsylvania, Ohio and 'Bleed? ing Kansas' as constantly exposed points. It was his intention on these invasions to take no prisoners except high civil officials, whom he would bold for ransom. His idea of taking no prisoners is one that his biographer, Dr. Dabney, either was not thoroughly familiar with or which he unintentionally failed to make himself clear upon in the 'Life of Jack? son.' General Jackson, in that inter? view with Captain Barringer, said that while he would take no men of the rank and file prisoners, he would parole them all at the point of the bayonet with the expressed understanding that if ever taken again they would be put to the sword without trial. "As regards the territory of the South Jackson said that his idea was to aban? don the less important points, and to put the citizens upon their guard that such would be the policy, so that they might be prepared for it. Where necessary he would defend, but his general policy was to strike terror in the Northern territory, and to locate the interior camps so that they :ou!d easiest obtain supplies and protect the important key pofnts of the South. "Whilst General Lee agreed with General Jackson on the general idea of this policy, the former said that circum? stances might arise before plans for its fruition could be eet afloat that would necessitate prosecuting entirely diferent plans of campaign. Besides, General Jackson said General Lee knew that President Davis did not share these views. The date of the interview between Gen? eral Jackson and Captain Barringer was July 14, 1862, after the victories around Bichmond, when Jackson thought the Confederacy waa in a desirable condition to make the changes of policy which he had conceived, and which bad the sym? pathy of Robert E. Lee. Within a few days after inui Pope struck a blow on" the Orange and Alexander Eailroad. Jackson whipped him at Cedar Bun, and Pope retreated. General Lee unfortun? ately invaded Maryland with his whole army, a misfortune that both Jackson and Lee forsaw; The result was the disaster at Sharpsburg. The whole army was in the enemy's lines, where they had no supplies. Under Jackson's plan of campaign, with 'light movable columns' of fifty thousand troops, this could not have happened." A Good Man Painted. It was on the San Jose train, and two young ladies?one as serious and good as a little nun, the other with a mischievous black eye?sat behind the youngest min? ister In town. The quiet one held in her hand a purple pansy so large that it at? tracted the attention of the young minis? ter. While he was still looking at it the train rushed into a tunnel. The black eyed young woman grabbed the pansy in the darkness from her compauion, and leaning over dropped it in the lap of the godly man. When the train reached daylight again the young minister had turned and with the pansy in his hand was glaring reprovingly at the nun like girl between whose fingers ho had seen the flower. Her face was blazing, and her down cast eyes seemed -to confess her guilt. The whole car snickered, and the mischievous black eyed girl read her book unconsciously. That is why the young minister preached on the iniquity of flirting tbe uext day.?San Francisco Examiner. ? A young man iu the treasury de? partment calls his b?3t girl ' benzoic sulphinide," because benzoic sulphiuide is three huudrcd timen sweeter than su? gar. ? The thimble is claimed by the Dutch as an invention of their country, but it is known that it was in use among the silk embroideries of China hundreds of years before it was used elsewhere. XXIV.- -NO. 51. ALL SORTS OP PARAGRAPHS. ? It is estimated that the United States has a doctor for every 600 inbabi- ? tar.ts. ? It is estimated that a rainy day in & city of 200,000 people kills $25,000 worth of trade. ? There are more'tbanleight hundred and sixty Indian dialects in North America alone. ? Men often preach from the house? tops while the devil is crawling in at the baaement below. ? Georgia expects to raise two thons-':a and more carloads of watermelons this year than in 1888. ? The average weight of the brain of a man is 3 1-2 pounds; of a woman, 2 pounds and 11 ounces. ? Meredith Stanley jumped 253 feet \ from a bridge into the Kentucky River,-/-: and came out almost unhurt. ? One of the greatest causes of trouble ia this world is the habit people have of talking faster than they think. The next national celebration will be the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, October 12,;^: 1802. -- It is estimated that the Protestant . churches of the United States contribute annually $11,250,000 for foreign mis? sions. ? It is said that nearly five million persons in the United Statos depend for - V; their living on the sale of liquor and to- . bacco. ? A Finnish woman in Minnesota has ."? given birth to six children at one time. ? The father hopes that this will finish the family. ? It is said that a gentleman named Eugene Moore killed five buudred alliga? tors ip Florida last year./ That rccord js": hard to beat. .? Arthur Simmons, a colored man, has been porter of the private Secretary's room , in the White House for twenty years. ... He was recently bounced. ? There are those who live in this world, as though it was never to have an' end ; and for the next as though it was never to have a beginning. ? There are five girls in one of the Humpnreyai families of Fleming County,. Ky., and their namea are Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and Vir gini?.. ? A manufacturer of cosmetics atatea that it costs American women $6,200,000 a yetr to paint their faces. The variega? ted noses of the men of America costs - much more. ?In England, a country more religious than America, the telephone is used.to . enable invalids, doctors, druggists and otheri to hear sermons that they cannot go to church for. ? A friend of the ink manufacturer is Mr. Ludwig Vonhinkelsteinhausenbloser of Cincinnati, who insists on having his ;<X name written or printed in full whenever . occasion demands. ? George Case, a New Yorker, was arrested on a charge of stealing 112 gold rings. One of them proved to be only . - washed, and George's lawyer got?fhim ' clear on this technicality. ? Benjamin D. Silliman says there were only 495 lawyers in New York city when he began his practice sixty ye: n ago, bat that the New York bar iB now adorned with 5,575 members, ?A Salem, Dak., newspaper prints the following unique advertisement: "If John Jones, who twenty years ago deserted his poor wife and babe, will return, said babe will lick the stufuV out of him." ? II. is said that the largest pine tree ever cut in Michigan was felled recently near Hobart. It was six feet in diame? ter at the butt, and scaled ten thousand and six hundred feet of choice lumber. , . ? One Dr. Terc, in England, ia adv?- ; eating the sting of bees as a remedy for rheumatism. He declares that he has treated with success one hundred and seventy-three cases, and has given in all thirty-thousand stings. ? The Democrats of Illinois and Ohio have seme hopes of carrying those States this fall. The isaue in which they expect to gain votes, atrange to say, is the tariff. Time and reflection are believed to be making votes for the Democracy in the West. ? A young married couple in Aahta-\ bula county, 0? have been making gar- . -den for the 'trat time. When planting . " onions ithey were at a loss to tell which end to put down, so they compromised the matter, ho putting them in one way and she the other. ? Little John Bankhead, who only smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, has climbed the golden, stair. He puffed his little soul away in the smoke of paper . wads. Johnny lived in Philadelphia and is an angel now, but the innocent ciga? rette ia still with ue. ? A Portland, Ore., man pulled out his pocketbook, when the wind seized its contents and scattered them broadcast, and $950 in bills were blown about the streets. Fortunately everybody in the vicinity proved to be honest, and the money was all recovered. v ? A Reading tobacconist has a ten weeks old bear, which he keeps in his store. It plays with hia Newfoundland dog and eeema to enjoy itself greatly. The other day it approached a drummer from behind, and gave him a hug that atartled and surprised him. ? One hour of solicitude passed in sin? cere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with and conquest over a single passion or bosom sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. ? The "fire fiend" startles us with the statement that one iiundred and eleven, million dollars worth of property was destroyed by fire in this country last year. The year before the amount de? stroyed was one hundred and twenty millions. Incendiarism is given as the main cause, and defective fines come next. Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business,1 should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, a9 it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other form s of sickness.. For sale in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leading draggishj,